Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 93

Three of the poems Mitchell wrote out for me in exact, though often quite ungrammatical language, which was so close to the original that the metres betrayed themselves throughout.

Who acts: Three poems, ungrammatical language, metres · What happens: write out, be, betray · To what, where: exact, original

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Three poems, ungrammatical language, metres), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 poems	nummod
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 poems	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 poems	det
4	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wrote	nsubj
5	Mitchell	Mitchell	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wrote	nsubj
6	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 wrote	compound:prt
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 wrote	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 exact	case
11	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wrote	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 language	punct
13	though	though	ADV	_	17 language	advmod
14	often	often	ADV	_	17 language	advmod
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 ungrammatical	advmod
16	ungrammatical	ungrammatical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 language	amod
17	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrote	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 close	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 close	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 close	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 close	advmod
22	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 language	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 original	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 original	det
25	original	original	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 close	obl
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 betrayed	obj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 metres	det
28	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 betrayed	nsubj
29	betrayed	betray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 original	acl:relcl
30	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 betrayed	obj
31	throughout	throughout	ADV	_	29 betrayed	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	write out	past	the Three poems		exact	for me; Mitchell nsubj; ungrammatical language parataxis	vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in exact=Destination
2	is	past	ungrammatical language			to the original; close property	tree rules
3	betray	past	the metres	the original		Poems = poem obj; throughout property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Project Gutenberg book 78673 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 93